From Gerald (Gerry) Brown, Media Consultant in Hong Kong, the latest buzz on the Digital Broadcasters market in Asia-Pacific, South Asia and the Middle East covering the latest content and hardware moves in HDTV, 3G, IPTV, Mobile TV, terrestrial radio and TV, cable TV, broadband, satellite broadcast and streaming online.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

MCOT Call for IPTV Mobile TV trials

Bangkok.

Buzz Technologies,Inc (OTC: BZTG) said it has been invited to apply
for one of two
Broadcast licenses in Thailand and has won permission to test
broadcast MCOT signals to mobile devices and for IPTV application.

MCOT is the issuing authority.

Buzz says that the Thai market for Internet-protocol television
(IPTV) has now become commercially viable.

The two participants in the IPTV trials are True Corp and ADC, a
joint venture between Advanced Info Service and TOT Corp. They
forecast forecast that Thailand's IPTV market will be worth at least
two billion baht by 2008. (Thai Baht 38 to 1 US$).